NEW YORK (AP) -- Jerry Orbach had a gift for charming audiences his entire career -- first as a song-and-dance man who starred in musicals on and off Broadway, then for 12 years as a sharp-tongued cop ...

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On television, he was Detective Lennie Briscoe, one of the hardest-boiled characters ever to populate a cop show. On the off-Broadway stage, he introduced a sentimental ballad whose lyrics included ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Law Order" actor Jerry Orbach has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his manager said."We expect he'll be fine. He's been playing golf, shooting his episodes and doing real well," ...

Jerry Orbach left "Law & Order" after 12 years. He will appear in a reduced role in the next "Law & Order" spin-off. Early years: Jerome Bernard Orbach was born Oct. 20, 1935, in New York City. His ...

A middle-aged couple summoned to New York by the police break down upon learning that one of their daughters has been murdered and the other is missing. Though he has no lines in the rest of the scene ...

NEW YORK — Actor Jerry Orbach, who played a sardonic, seen-it-all cop on TV's "Law & Order" and scored on Broadway as a song-and-dance man, has died of prostate cancer at 69, a representative of the ...